Abstract [en]

The purpose of the study was to describe the abused children´s experience of everyday life and encounters in hospital care. The method used was qualitative narrative analysis. Five autobiographic pathografies were analyzed. Results: in the analysis emerged five themes: ”the dysfunctional family”, ”lie as a strategy”, ”the lonely struggle of the child”, ”to be invisible in care situations” and ”from the abyss to sanctuary”. The discussion was based on a synthesis of the Human-to-HumanRelationship Model by Travelbee and the findings, i e the five themes. The conclusion made it clear that the abused children´s experiences of everyday life and encounters in hospital care mean, that the child entirely must give up its rights to - not only mutual, but also simply human - meetings in the home and in hospital care, that the child then becomes entirely cut off from other people, at home, in hospital care, in school - abandoned to inhuman suffering with meanings of pain, shame, guilt, betrayal, that the child, despite the total defeat, had an inner force, a wish for a better future, which is made concrete through the child's sanctuary, the hospital, where the child gather courage, trust and hope.